🕒 FCC license data updated today 7:15 am CST (FCC files through Nov 4, 2026) · next update today 8:30 am CST
Ask: HAMs within 5 miles of N9TPB · Extra class operators in Madison, WI · or try N9TPB · K9* wildcards · Smith, John · 0004797601 (FRN) · 53703 · Madison, WI · old CB calls like KHC1939 or 18Q3518 (1962–63 CB call books) · (205) 546-1767 (1990s CB directory phones)
WD9EKL HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Sep 23, 2024.
2x3 call: any licensee can request it.
No pending applications list it.
Not currently held
· 1 holder on record
· available since Sep 23, 2024
Previous holder: MAX L BESSLER
Held WD9EKL Sep 22, 1992 → Sep 22, 2022
· first licensed Sep 22, 1992 as WD9EKL
· 1 license · FRN 0007323751 📖 In the printed callbooks since 1978 as WD9EKL, before the FCC's online records
From the FCC amateur database as published on the QRZ! callsign CD-ROMs, 1993–2003, before and alongside the FCC's online records (which start in 1999). "Seen" dates are the first and last disc showing that record; the issue date is the FCC's, so it can be a renewal of an even older license.
Seen Oct 25, 2002 → Apr 17, 2003 · 2 discs WD9EKL
· General · issued Jun 27, 2002, expires Sep 22, 2012
MAX L BESSLER
3608 EVANS RD, VALPARAISO, IN 46383
Seen Sep 9, 1993 → Apr 27, 2002 · 17 discs WD9EKL
· General · issued Sep 22, 1992, expires Sep 22, 2002
MAX L. BESSLER
3608 EVANS RD, VALPARAISO, IN 46383
Address history
From FCC database snapshots (2004 → now). "Seen" dates are the first and last snapshot showing that address.
Seen May 27, 2010 → Nov 1, 2026 · 51 snapshots · as WD9EKL
MAX L BESSLER
4706 TIMBER PINE DR, NEW ALBANY, IN 47150
From scanned copies of the printed callbooks (government lists from 1913, then the Radio Amateur Callbook to 1997), read by OCR, so names and streets can carry typos. Each line is one or more editions in a row showing the same name at the same address.
1994 · 1 edition WD9EKL · class G
Max L Bessler 3608 Evans Rd, Valparaiso, IN 46383 1994 p.1599
1987 · 1 edition WD9EKL · class G
Max L Bessler Pob 1316, Valparaiso, IN 46363 Winter 1987 p.1160
1985 · 1 edition WD9EKL · class G
Max L Bessler Pob 317, Valparaiso, IN 46383 Winter 1985 p.1146
1984 · 1 edition WD9EKL · class G
Max L Bess•r Pob 317, Valparaiso In 4&383 Winter 1984 p.1145
None → 1983 · 6 editions WD9EKL · class G
Max L Bessler Box 327, Valparaiso None p.1020, Winter 1978 p.883, Winter 1980 p.1020, 1981 p.955, Winter 1982 p.1066, Winter 1983 p.1100
📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for WD9EKL in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of WD9EKL beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.